June 1, 2025
Letters from an American
Heather Cox Richardson
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🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | June 1st, 2025. |
| 0:09.5 | Even as government agents from the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, ramp up their arrests and confrontations, |
| 0:18.0 | the lug nuts on the wheels of the White House bus continue to loosen. |
| 0:22.5 | On Wednesday, officers from the Federal Protective Service, which is part of DHS, handcuffed an aid in the Manhattan |
| 0:30.0 | Office of Representative Jerry Nadler, a Democrat of New York. Someone sitting in the office |
| 0:35.4 | captured the confrontation on video. |
| 0:38.8 | Federal agents are trying to meet the quotas the administration has set for arrests |
| 0:43.1 | by detaining individuals outside immigration courtrooms after they show up for their scheduled hearings. |
| 0:50.0 | According to Christopher Magg of the New York Times, peaceful protesters gathered on Wednesday outside the Manhattan federal building that holds an immigration court, and immigration advocates gathered outside the courtroom. |
| 1:02.8 | As officers detained immigrants outside the courtroom, advocates reminded the immigrants they had a right to remain silent. |
| 1:11.4 | Officers threatened to arrest the advocates for loitering, |
| 1:14.7 | and a member of Nadler's staff invited some of the advocates to Nadler's office, |
| 1:19.1 | a floor above the court, to diffuse the situation. |
| 1:22.8 | The video shows a federal agent demanding access to a private area of Nadler's office, saying, |
| 1:29.3 | you're harboring rioters in the office. When an aide tried to stop them, agents handcuffed the aid. |
| 1:36.9 | When another aide asked for a search warrant, an agent said they didn't need one and pushed past her. |
| 1:43.4 | In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security |
| 1:46.2 | said that its officers entered Nadler's office because they were concerned about the safety of his |
| 1:51.7 | staff members and that the agents detained the aid so they could complete their safety check. |
| 1:58.0 | Nadler, who was the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, identified the |
| 2:03.2 | invasion of his office as an attempt to intimidate a member of Congress. The Trump administration |
| 2:09.3 | is really using totalitarian or even authoritarian practices, he said. We have to fight them. We don't want to be a fascist country. |
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